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There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs

Kate’s last post about Eric Holder brings up something that struck me kind of funny, as Bruce Springsteen would say. Notwithstanding Holder’s language about

Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) wrote to CIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday to claim an inaccuracy in the CIA’s list of briefings held for members of Congress on

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a new monthly scorecard on the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP -- the Obama

This can’t possibly be good: A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani

One side is playing election-year politics; the other is wrestling with urgent budget policies -- and the source of funding is starting to matter less than whether or not it arrives at all.

As reported on Monday, the Pentagon didn’t embrace Stuart Bowen’s proposal to create a new agency -- the U.S. Office of Contingency Operations -- to help plan

Two weeks ago I noted that the U.S. military signed its last checks to the former insurgents known as the Sons of Iraq or the Awakening Councils. The program --

Reid Wilson has the latest fundraising pitch from the GOP’s Senate campaign committee, and, if anything, it’s more double-take-inducing than the pitch that

ABC News reports that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will remain on the job in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration for at least a year, quoting a

The Senate on Tuesday night easily passed an amendment to credit card reform legislation that would allow concealed weapons in national parks. The vote was 67

Indiana Republican lawmakers stripped funding from Planned Parenthood last month and in doing so made contraception unaffordable for thousands of Medicaid patients.

Most of the senators on the Judiciary Committee today seem to be bending over backwards to give the FBI and Justice Department every benefit of the doubt when

The Washington Post weighs in today on the Democrats’ $245 billion plan to overhaul the way Medicare pays doctors -- a bill Senate leaders are trying to divorce

As the NATO foreign ministerial summit in Brussels opens with a pledge of 7,000 new allied troops for Afghanistan, hawkish secretary-general Anders Fogh

Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing,

When the federal government pays contractors to take over work done by public employees it ends up paying more than twice as much, according to a new study by the Project on Government Oversight.

North Carolina could be the next state to add a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as the Legislature plans to begin debating the issue on Sept.

Piling on to the GOP pushback against requests for the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove spoke on the Fox News Channel’s Your

This morning, the Labor Department announced that initial weekly jobless claims fell to 454,000. The number of people continuing to receive benefits fell to the

When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this week that President George W. Bush had nominated the U.S. military’s first woman four-star general, he

A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here

Just as soon as I finish blogging about how probable-new-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Janine Davidson is all about smoother civilian-military